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Digital 3D/360 ° camera system

  • US 8,659,640 B2
  • Filed: 09/07/2012
  • Issued: 02/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for generating a three-hundred-sixty degree digital representation of an area, comprising:

  • capturing an image from each of a plurality of digital cameras having a field of view that overlaps with the field of view of at least one other digital camera among the plurality of digital cameras forming a stereoscopic field of view;

    generating a composite pixel vector map based on the images associated with the plurality of digital cameras and defining a coordinate system of the plurality of digital cameras in terms of at least;

    camera position data defining the position of each of the plurality of digital cameras, anda plurality of camera-specific pixel vector maps, each camera-specific pixel vector map associated with a camera of the plurality of digital cameras; and

    generating a three-hundred-sixty degree digital representation of the area surrounding the plurality of digital cameras based at least on the stored composite pixel vector map.

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